Bella Williams

Bella Williams is from Edmond, Oklahoma, and wrestled for Edmond North High School. She won three Oklahoma girls' state titles there and finished her high school career 113-0 with 107 falls. She was named the Outstanding Wrestler of the 2022 girls' state tournament.

At Fargo in 2022 she placed third in both the Junior and 16U divisions. In 2023 she won the 16U title at Fargo and was named the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler. In 2024 she won the U17 World Team Trials and the U17 Pan American title. She made the U17 World Team but did not compete at the championships in Jordan, which nearly half the U.S. team missed that year over security concerns.

In 2025 she was runner-up at both the U20 and U23 World Team Trials and won the U23 Pan American title. She joined Iowa as a freshman for 2025-26, went 28-7 with 14 technical falls and four falls, and won the Grand View Open.

In April 2026 she won the U20 Nationals at 62 kg, about 137 pounds, in Spokane, Washington. She took the best-of-three final in two matches, 11-1 and 6-0. That spring she also placed second at the U23 World Team Trials and eighth at the Senior Nationals. That summer she won bronze at the senior Grand Prix of Spain, with a win over Othelie Hoie of Norway, a 2023 World bronze medalist.

At the U20 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, in August she beat Gabriela Rudoi of Moldova 11-0. She lost to Sakura Onishi of Japan, the 2025 Senior World champion, then lost in repechage to Barbara Bager of Hungary and placed seventh. She returns to Iowa for the 2026-27 season, her second with the Hawkeyes.